£ symbol display as a square?

£ symbol display as a square?

When I enter a £ sign into an iRite field, save it and then view that content on a web page, the pound sign displays as a square symbol.Is that something I'm doing wrong, or is it a bug in the old iRite?Thank you.NJ

still no joy

I have the character set as you have described:<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

...but I'm still seeing squares for pound signs or, even more strangely, black diamonds with a question mark in the middle:http://www.nathonjones.com/swpc/property-estate-agents-scotland.asp?SWPC=292 (squares)http://www.nathonjones.com/swpc/property-lets-rented-accommodation.asp?SWPC=467 (diamonds with question mark)

This text is being fed from a field in an MSSQL database table.Hope someone can spot the glaring error. Thank you.RegardsNJ

database fine

The pound sign looks fine in the database. To say I'm confused would be an understatement because I've been working with MSSQL and Classic ASP for a long time and have never encountered this.

I'm using the iRite extension to allow the user to input a description, which often includes a pound sign. How do I get iRite to convert the pound sign to the encoded value you've recommended?

I can't use Server.HTMLEncode either because the description includes <p> </p> tags.

I checked the page against W3C validation and, sure enough, there is an error reported related to utf-8:

"Sorry, I am unable to validate this document because on line 302 it contained one or more bytes that I cannot interpret as utf-8 (in other words, the bytes found are not valid values in the specified Character Encoding). Please check both the content of the file and the character encoding indication.